Empowering Kiwis.
Transforming Lives.
Creating Real Change.
At Kiwis For Good, we believe mental health needs more than awareness. It needs action. It needs people willing to try new things, question what we have always done, and look for better ways to help.
Mental health challenges affect all of us in different ways. Yet too often, the same approaches are repeated while the problems continue to grow. We believe it is time to do things differently. We don’t just talk about mental health. We take action.
What We Do
Our work focuses on several key areas where we believe we can make a real difference.
Stories
Social Issues
Te Puna Aio - The Breath of Hawaiki
Te Puna Aio is a documentary produced by Kiwis For Good. It follows Tukiri Awa and Kawariki Thompson as they lead a group of men through breathwork practices aimed at processing trauma and building resilience.
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Social Issues
The Tank and the Ocean
Using the story of Tilikum, an orca shaped by life in captivity, this article explores how prolonged, unseen environmental pressure can affect human wellbeing, especially for young people.
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Social Issues
How We Saved Mia: A Race Against the Clock
Trigger Warning: This story discusses child sexual abuse (CSA) and may be triggering for some readers. If you or someone you know is going through something similar, please call 111 immediately or visit our Need Help section on the Kiwis For Good website.
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Social Issues
The Hero’s Journey: Helping Young Kiwi Men Find Their Strength
Since launching in late 2025, The Hero’s Journey by Kiwis for Good has quietly begun changing the lives of young men across New Zealand. Many have spent years feeling unheard, unsupported, or disconnected from the world around them.
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Social Issues
SSRI’s Used To Destroy Love? Epstein’s Chilling Vision And NZ’s Youth Crisis
As fresh revelations continue to emerge from the Jeffrey Epstein files almost daily, Kiwis For Good feels compelled to restate its resolute position as a leading advocate for genuine mental health in New Zealand—particularly with regard to the widespread use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), the dominant class of antidepressants.
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Social Issues
80 New Zealanders a Year: The Lives We Could Save with Voluntary Recovery Houses
Every year in Aotearoa, more people die by suicide in the first month after leaving a mental health inpatient unit than during the entire time they were on the ward. The numbers are brutal and stubbornly unchanged for 15 years.
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